 Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature; it was with a sigh, such as genius draws when hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 3961856Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. t " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor...from a goose, but when he saw it on the table."— CCMRERLANP'S Memoirs. J " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pages
...beasts, and creeping things, which Pidock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knows an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he sees it on the table." Others of Goldsmith's friends entertained similar ideas with respect to bis... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. t " I'oor follow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mnle, nor n turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table." — CUMBERLAND'S Mtmoin. t " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. t " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor...turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table." — CUMRERLAND'S Memoirs. t " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 498 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. 3 " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a \ pawnbroker's shop. He wrote ballads, they say, for the street-singers, who paid him a crown for a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 474 pages
...Then from Edinburgh he felt that he ought to hear the famous professors of Leyden and Paris, and wrote turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table." — CDMBERLAND'S Memoirs. 1 " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 410 pages
...he should go to London, and study at the Temple; but he got no farther on the road to London and * " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a 25 turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table."— CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs, t " These youthful... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 414 pages
...no farther on the road to London and * " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a 25 turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table."— CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs. t " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby'a bill. f " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor...from a goose, but when he saw it on the table."— CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs. % "These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1909 - 440 pages
...birds and beasts and' creeping things, which Pidock's show-man would have done as well. Foor fejlow, he hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from...saw it on the table. But publishers hate poetry, and Paternoster-Row is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Doetor Hill, who was not a very delicate feeder,... | |
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